0:00 - Demographics of Camp Blanding during basic training

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Keywords: 442nd; California; Camp Blanding; demographics; mainland; mission; Nisei; replacements; Seattle; training; Washington

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0:54 - Embarkation and traveling through Europe to join 100th

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Keywords: 100th; 40 and 8; boxcars; Gothic Line; Italian campaign; Italy; La Havre; landing ship; Marseilles; Northern France; overseas; port of embarkation; replacement depot; reputation; trains; troops

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3:13 - First job as litter bearer/ Sleeping through artillery fire

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Keywords: 442nd Infantry Regiment; artillery; clubhouse; coincidence; company; cross fire; dead; deceased; job; killed in action; litter bearer; photo; sleep; stepping fire; town; window; wounded

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5:24 - First battle/ Parallel incidents with wounded American and German soldiers

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Keywords: 2nd Battallion; 88’s; American; ammo; anti-aircraft; artillery; attack force; bandolier; casualties; correlations; enemy; engaged; F Company; fight; firing; foxhole; German language; German soldiers; grenades; kill; landmines; machine guns; march; medic; mother; pack; retreat; rifle clips; road black; shoe box mines; shot; squads; strength; women; wounded

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10:30 - Close calls and luck

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Keywords: capture; establish the line; German patrol; gun; patrols; retreat; signals; sleeping; squadmate

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11:30 - Strategic importance of Gothic Line/ Quality troops and effect of the 442

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Keywords: 442nd Infantry Regiment; Allies; breach; cannon fodder; chance; effect; Gothic Line; Japanese-American soldiers; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; mountains; northern Italy; patriotic duty; policies; property loss; quality; redress; rumors; strategy; troops

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14:35 - Most difficult experience from war/ "Kill or be killed"

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Keywords: “kill or be killed”; crying; emotional pain; enemy; friend; German soldiers; Germans; hardship; kill; mother; pain; similarities; soldiers; war; wounded

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17:16 - German surrender and POW camps/ Getting to know the Hawaiian boys

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Subjects: 5th Army bar fight Camp Blanding Camp Hood Camp Shelby capture customs enemy fighting friends Germany Gothic Line guard Hawaii Hawaii boys Hawaiian songs helmets hills Italy Japanese culture mainlanders Nisei old country Pidgin English Poe Valley POW camps POWs Prisoner of War regiment reserved retreat reunions rice surrender Switzerland war

21:39 - News from the front line and end of European Campaign/ Necessity of the atomic bomb

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Keywords: Army newspaper; atomic bomb; battlefront; ciivilians; Dresden; ending; European Campaign; fighting; fire bombing; Germans; GIs; Gothic Line; Hiroshima; innocents; Italy; Japan; Lecco; main assault; Military Intelligence Service; MIS; Nagasaki; news; Po Valley; POWs; prisoner of war; prisoners; progress; relief; troops; volunteers; war; weapon; wins

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25:18 - Innocent victims of war/ Letters to home

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Keywords: Allies; army; Axis; bomb; enemy; family; gas; girls; home; hungry; innocents; letters; lonely; mother; offensive; post-war; soldiers; tired; victims; war; weapons; write

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